Following a conversation with @zombifiedguy on this thread, I thought I’d start a thread for those of us who love the “Cornetto trilogy” and just about anything Nick Frost/Simon Pegg. Hot Fuzz has a special place in my heart: it’s what I went to see on my first unofficial first date with my husband. Yes, I still have the ticket!
So, which movie is your favourite? Favourite quotes? Scenes? Go on, you know you want to
Each to their own! But yes I can overlook the Crocs! I had a “I’m not insane, my mother had me tested” t-shirt bought me for Christmas a few years ago!
I bought my neighbour a “bazinga!” mug for Christmas. He and I are always winding one another up and I had the last laugh — he tried to make me jump once so I pulled a party popper on him just after he put his power tools down and he thought the battery had exploded. I’ve warned him that I have a confetti cannon if he ever considers an escalation. He bought me a fish-themed quiz game (I’m both a fisherwoman and an aquarist) for Christmas, as well as a “sushi lover” Hot Wheels car, so I thought a mug from his favourite TV show — with some gentle “remember who you’re messing with” energy — seemed appropriate. I bought my other partner a mug with his affectionately-afforded nickname on it too, that he got by thinking he could intimidate me.
Huge Spaced fan, generally also love what Simon, Nick and Edgar do - save Worlds End. Such a shame given the quality of the cast.
Paul is epic, Baby Driver was OK but again didn’t seem to really bring much out of the cast (and rewatching you REALLY see how creepy Spacey was at that time).
In the 80’s I went in Virgin Megastore in Birmingham one weekday afternoon to unexpectely discover Adam West the 60’s Batman signing stuff. At the time there was a strike by the ITV news team on Good Morning Britain so they filled the time with repeats of Batman and Happy Days so Batman was popular again.
I went upstairs to buy a graphic novel to get signed. I was only gone 5 minutes but when I got back he’d gone as there was nobody queueing!
I was thinking of Run Fat Boy Run but that’s Pegg as stand alone, not Pegg/Frost.
I’ve seen Absolutely Anything as well but that one falls apart for me. The Trailer is all in
the first 10-20 minutes of the movie and the rest just… lacks.
@zombifiedguy you still haven’t forgiven my love of crocs, you can be wrong too
Zombies does remind me, kind of related, my husband used to play Dead Rising 2. One of his best combinations was a leaf blower and unbrella; it was like a riot shield for zombies that decimated them if they got too close. I also remember the time he was playing and I was going to sneeze, so I tried to tap him to warn him and he thought I was trying to bug him. Before now I didn’t know my husband was religious, but I sneezed and he yeeted the controller with a declaration of “Jesus Christ!”